Sananda Maitreya in conversation with David Eastaugh https://sanandamaitreya.com/ https://www.youtube.com/SanandaMaitreya Artist, composer, arranger, producer, multi-instrumentalist, entrepreneur and Post Millennium Rocker, SANANDA MAITREYA was born in New York U.S.A. on March 15th 1962. n 1987 his debut album “Introducing the Hardline”, gives him International success. Sananda wins a Grammy Award in 1988 as Best R&B Vocal Performance, Male.In June 1988 he is on the cover of Rolling Stone Ma...
Sep 10, 2025•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 1244
Guy Mankowski in conversation with David Eastaugh https://iknowhowtolive.substack.com/p/welcome-to-i-know-how-to-live-the
Sep 10, 2025•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 1239
Dorothy Max Prior in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.roughtrade.com/product/dorothy-max-prior/sex-is-no-emergency-adventures-in-a-post-punk-wonderland Further adventures in psychedelic rock, ballroom dancing, performance art, and parenting in 1980s Britain. Further adventures in a post-punk wonderland from the author of the acclaimed 69 Exhibition Road . In this new volume, focusing on the 1980s, Dorothy Max Prior recalls her days as a ballroom dancing tutor in South Kensington, dru...
Sep 09, 2025•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 1243
Ted Zurkowski in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.tedzurkowski.com/ https://www.honeywestmusic.com/ted-zurkowski.php An acclaimed member of New York's acting community, Ted Zurkowski is a Lifetime Member of the Actors Studio. He's also been playing in bands and composing songs since his tender, pre-shaving years. In 1994, he and fellow Studio member Lynnea Benson founded the venerable Frog & Peach Theatre Company, one of New York's most popular Shakespeare ensembles. A man of man...
Sep 07, 2025•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 1242
Noel Burke in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.facebook.com/groups/1001217991862133/user/61555741167271/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/1001217991862133 Irish singer, who is best known for replacing Ian McCulloch as the lead singer with Echo & the Bunnymen from 1989 to 1993. Burke's first band was St. Vitus Dance, who released the album Love Me, Love My Dogma in 1987. The band split and Burke was contacted by Will Sergeant, who invited him to join Echo & the Bunnymen as lead...
Sep 07, 2025•55 min•Ep. 1241
Richard James Burgess in conversation with David Eastaugh https://landscape.band/ https://landscapeband.bandcamp.com/ English musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, composer, author, manager, marketer and inventor. Burgess's music career spans more than 50 years. He came to prominence in the early 1980s as co-founder and co-lead singer of the synthpop band Landscape, which released a top-5 hit in 1981 with the single "Einstein a Go-Go". Burgess is one of the main composers of Landscape's...
Sep 06, 2025•2 hr 44 min•Ep. 1240
Chris D in conversation with David Eastaugh Chris D. (born Chris Desjardins) is an American punk poet, singer, writer, rock critic, producer, and filmmaker. He is best known as the lead singer and founder of the early and long-running Los Angeles punk/death rock band the Flesh Eaters. The Flesh Eaters were a staple of the L.A. punk scene in the 1980s. [7] The band played alongside seminal bands like The Misfits and The Meat Puppets . [3] A number of original Flesh Eaters releases, like River of ...
Aug 31, 2025•1 hr 48 min•Ep. 1238
Reinhold Heil in conversation with David Eastaugh https://reinholdheil.com/ German musician, producer, and film and television composer. He initially achieved success in Germany as a member of the post-punk and Neue Deutsche Welle groups Nina Hagen Band, Spliff and Nena, and later as a music producer. As a film composer, he is known for his collaborations with director Tom Tykwer, on films such as Run Lola Run (1998), Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006), The International (2009), and Cloud A...
Aug 30, 2025•1 hr 45 min•Ep. 1237
Paul Marko in conversation with David Eastaugh https://punk77.co.uk/ https://www.facebook.com/punk77UK/?locale=en_GB A history of UK Punk Rock from 1976-79: Featuring bands, fashion, Club & Pubs, history, fanzines & features
Aug 29, 2025•1 hr 27 min•Ep. 1236
Rob Janicke in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.robjanicke.com/ HAVE I GOT A LITTLE STORY FOR YOU... The year was 1984. I was eleven years old and popular music was in a state of confusion. Along with songs by artists I liked such as Van Halen, Prince, Quiet Riot, Duran Duran, Billy Idol, and The Police, Top 40 radio constantly played songs from bands or artists that didn't quite do it for me. Apologies to Kenny Loggins, Phil Collins, Bananarama, Wang Chung, and Ray Parker Jr. Due to...
Aug 24, 2025•1 hr 32 min•Ep. 1235
Jon Klein in conversation with David Eastaugh In 1980, he formed Bristol band Specimen with Ollie Wisdom and Kev Mills. In 1982, after moving in London and renting a place in Soho, Klein co-founded with Wisdom the club the Batcave, which was a party on Wednesday nights at The Gargoyle. Klein and Wisdom then opened a Batcave club night in New-York. In 1987, he became a full-time member of Siouxsie and the Banshees. He recorded three albums with the band, Peepshow in 1988, Superstition in 1991 and...
Aug 24, 2025•1 hr 42 min•Ep. 1234
Howard Wuelfing in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.diwulf.com/products/available-for-presale-descenes-and-discords-an-anthology On August 19, 2025, Descenes and Discords: An Anthology will be released, offering a powerful time capsule of the birth and early evolution of punk music through the pages of two influential fanzines: Descenesand Discords. These publications, originally printed and distributed in Washington, D.C. during the late 1970s and early 1980s, captured the raw energ...
Aug 21, 2025•1 hr 35 min•Ep. 1232
John Ellerby in conversation with David Eastaugh http://www.waveneyclarion.co.uk/ The Waveney Clarion was a unique publication, born of the Barsham Fairs. A monthly magazine, it hammered away for eleven years at social injustice, music, ecology, beer, art and the best type of potato to grow on your allotment. “ The beginning of the Waveney Clarion resulted from the kind of unexpected, fortuitous coincidences that don't come knocking every day, making a venture feel like it is meant to happen and...
Aug 17, 2025•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 1231
Mark Brend in conversation with David Eastaugh http://jawbonepress.com/down-river/ Down River: In Search Of David Ackles is an illuminating study of mythmaking, the popular music industry, and a forgotten enigma of the 1970s. In 1972, David Ackles’s third album, American Gothic , was released to a flurry of press plaudits declaring it to be ‘the Sgt Pepper of folk’ and one of the greatest records ever made. Yet the album, like its two predecessors, failed to sell, and after one more record, its ...
Aug 17, 2025•42 min•Ep. 1230
Paul Da Vinci in conversation with David Eastaugh https://pauldavinci.com/home https://www.pauldavinci.net/ Paul Da Vinci is best known as the "incredible" voice on the Rubettes' number one selling single "Sugar Baby Love", which sold over 8 million copies world-wide featuring his three and a half octave voice. Paul sang all the lead vocals on the record, including the high falsetto, and was also lead vocalist on the B side of the record "You could have told me". Recorded at 1.30am Lansdowne Stu...
Aug 16, 2025•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 1229
Jamie James in conversation with David Eastaugh https://shop.bandwear.com/collections/oglio-records-shop/products/ogl048 James was initially known as the leader and founder of the rockabilly trio The Kingbees, active between 1978 and 1982. The group included drummer Rex Roberts and bassist Michael Rummans. The Kingbees recorded two albums with David J. Holman, producing on RSO. The first, titled The Kingbees , (released March 1980) featured the James-penned hit "My Mistake". The second album, ti...
Aug 14, 2025•1 hr 24 min•Ep. 1228
Terry Reid in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.terryreid.com/
Aug 13, 2025•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 1227
Joe Boyd in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.joeboyd.co.uk/ https://www.amazon.co.uk/Roots-Rhythm-Remain-Journey-Through
Aug 13, 2025•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 1226
Chris Stamey in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.chrisstamey.com/ https://chrisstamey.bandcamp.com/ Anything Is Possible, the latest collection of original material (and one affectionate cover) from North Carolina songwriter / vocalist / guitarist / producer Chris Stamey, an indie rock icon with a long and illustrious history that’s encompassed co-founding seminal avant-pop band the dBs, playing with Alex Chilton in the 70s and more recently with Jody Stephens's Big Star Quintet, and...
Aug 11, 2025•51 min•Ep. 1225
Gerard Langley & Chris Sharp in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.theblueaeroplanes.com/ The Blue Aeroplanes first performed under that name at the King Street Art Gallery in Bristol in 1981. They consisted mainly of former members of Art Objects , with the addition of Nick Jacobs, former guitarist and vocalist of Southampton band the Exploding Seagulls. The Blue Aeroplanes' first album, Bop Art was released on their own Party Records in 1984, and was rapidly picked up by the Abst...
Aug 09, 2025•1 hr 41 min•Ep. 1224
Cara Tivey in conversation with David Eastaugh https://dagoogie.bandcamp.com/album/the-golden-thread https://www.carativey.com/ https://carativey.bandcamp.com Cara Tivey joined Birmingham band Au Pairs as keyboard player in 1983. In 1985, Tivey got her first recording break with Everything But the Girl on Baby the Stars Shine Bright . In 1988, she started working with Billy Bragg on the Workers Playtime album, singing vocals on "Must I Paint You a Picture". She shared the bill with Bragg on the ...
Aug 08, 2025•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 1223
Alan Williams in conversation with David Eastaugh The Rubettes' first and biggest hit was " Sugar Baby Love " (1974) which was a number one in the United Kingdom, going on to sell around 500,000 copies in the UK and three million copies globally. With three more songs, "Sugar Baby Love" was recorded in October 1973 at Lansdowne Studios in Holland Park, London. "Sugar Baby Love" was their only UK No. 1 and sole US Top 40 entry....
Aug 08, 2025•49 min•Ep. 1222
Brixton Key https://brixtonkey.com/ Brixton Key was born in 1950’s London to a party-loving mum and an errant scallywag dad. As a small boy, he fell in love with the sound of his elder brother’s Muddy Waters and Howling Wolf’s Chess records, Charles Dickens novels, Edith Sitwell poems. causing continual mischief and on the bombsites surrounding his parents central London pub. Now longhaired and Kings Road dressed, Brixton copped a gig at the British music weekly Melody Maker. Writing under the n...
Aug 07, 2025•1 hr 39 min•Ep. 1221
Martin Porter & David Goggin in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.amazon.co.uk/Buzz-Me-Inside-Record-studios/dp/0500028699 Strap yourself in and take a helter-skelter ride through more than a decade’s worth of high drama, hedonism, high tech and musical genius as told by the insiders at the heart of Record Plant studios, one of the most prolific recording factories of all time, founded in 1968 by charismatic audio engineer Gary Kellgren and ace businessman Chris Stone. In the 1970...
Aug 03, 2025•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 1220
Rolf Brendel in conversation with David Eastaugh https://rolfbrendel.de/ The band was formed in 1981 when vocalist Gabriele Kerner (Nena) came to West Berlin with drummer Rolf Brendel , her boyfriend at the time. The band wrote all of their songs themselves, typically working in pairs. They became overnight sensations in Germany when they performed their debut single "Nur geträumt" on German TV in August 1982 The single reached number 2 in the German charts, a position it occupied for 6 weeks, a...
Jul 31, 2025•1 hr 25 min•Ep. 1219
Philip Sanderson in conversation with David Eastaugh https://snatchtapes.bandcamp.com/ Storm Bugs are a post-punk band formed in 1978 in Deptford, London, by Philip Sanderson and Steven Ball who had met in the Medway Towns, England. The band have been linked to a number of genres including: cassette culture, industrial music and DIY. Storm Bugs were initially active between 1978–82 and defying gravity reformed in 2001. After moving to London in late 1978 Sanderson wangled out of hours access to ...
Jul 31, 2025•1 hr 39 min•Ep. 1218
Mark Flunder in conversation with David Eastaugh The McTells - Formed in 1985 in Hertford, UK. Initially a 4 piece comprising Paul Rixon on guitar and vocal, Bill on guitar, Stuart on bass, Mark Flunder from the Television Personalities on stand up drums. Bill later left to form The Big Paintings but the rest of the band continued as a three piece releasing records on Pauls own Bi-Joopiter label and on Frank, K, Little Teddy Recordings and Vinyl Japan.
Jul 26, 2025•1 hr 23 min•Ep. 1217
Kavus Torabi in conversation with David Eastaugh https://kavustorabi.bandcamp.com/album/the-banishing https://www.planetgong.co.uk/ https://theutopiastrong.bandcamp.com/album/the-utopia-strong Musician, composer, record label owner and radio broadcaster. A multi-instrumentalist, he is known for his work in the psychedelic, avant-garde rock field (primarily as a guitarist). Torabi was one of the founding members of the Monsoon Bassoon (as singer, guitarist and one of the two primary composers), w...
Jul 23, 2025•2 hr 8 min•Ep. 1216
Deb Googe in conversation with David Eastaugh https://dagoogie.bandcamp.com/album/the-golden-thread https://www.dagoogie.com/ English musician, who achieved international fame as the bassist for the band My Bloody Valentine. Their studio albums Isn't Anything (1988) and Loveless (1991) established Googe as a pioneering figure in the shoegaze genre. She has also worked with Snowpony, Primal Scream and Thurston Moore....
Jul 20, 2025•1 hr 28 min•Ep. 1215
Nick Hobbs in conversation with David Eastaugh https://soundcloud.com/nikolaigalen https://www.youtube.com/user/nikolaigalen/featured The Shrubs were an English rock music group, formed in 1985, releasing three albums before splitting up in 1989. Shrubs contributed Bullfighters Bones to the NME 's famous C86 album. A further 12", Blackmailer followed towards the end of the year, with debut album Take Me Aside for a Midnight Harangue hitting the shops in July 1987. With the collapse of the Ron Jo...
Jul 16, 2025•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 1214
